Avoidable deaths among adults with learning disabilities have fallen from 46.3% in 2021 to 39.0% in 2024, according to the latest and last LeDeR report, but they remain twice as high as in the general ...

A new report from National FASD calls for a FASD Prevention and Response Programme funded by an amount equivalent to 0.25% of ...

The interim report of the Timms Review has found that the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system is failing to keep pace ...

Learning Disability England is inviting signatories to support its open letter to the government, urging it to prioritise the ...

A new guide on the transition to adulthood from the Challenging Behaviour Foundation examines the issues that young people with learning disabilities and their families face, as well as examples of ...

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has advocated repealing the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), a legal requirement in Great Britain that obligates public authorities to consider the needs of ...

The Business Disability Forum has said the Government must address the Access to Work backlog if new plans to overhaul the ‘broken’ fit note system are to succeed. This week, the Government announced ...

Care England is calling on the Government to treat adult social care as a national priority, move beyond short-term fixes, and recognise its contribution of approximately £78 billion to the UK economy ...

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is now providing sensory activity bags for patients with learning disabilities and autistic people who need to attend the emergency department. The project was the ...

Autism charities in the UK have joined forces to call on the Government to invest in a long-term strategy to reform the systems that diagnose and support autistic people. The report, A New Path Ahead: ...

The Mental Health Act 2025 1 received Royal Assent in December 2025 to modernise the law governing the assessment, treatment, and rights of people experiencing mental distress in England and Wales.

NHS England has published minimum standards for keyworking services for autistic children and young people, and for children and young people with a learning disability. These minimum standards ...